Improvement in harness-buckles



A. L. McQUARY. HARNESS-BUCKLE.

Patented Sept. 18, 1877.

- fizz/awn UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN L. MOQUARY, OF LA BELLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,299. dated September 18, 1877; application filed November 15, 1875.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, ALLEN LUOIAN Mo- QUARY, of La Belle, in the county of Lewis and State of Missouri, have invented certain Improvements in Harness, of ,which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a means whereby the backhand and bellyband may be moved toward or from the hames, to suit the animal upon which they are to be used. This consists in the regulating of the hame-tug, in combination with the regulating of the trace, by means of a double pin-buckle, with a key passing through loops in the sides of the buckle, and between the pins, for which it forms a brace, and holds the hame-tug and trace in their place, they coming together on the inside of the buckle in such a manner as to form almost a solid splice, and allowing the buckle to remain perfectly smooth on the side next to the animal.

I will now proceed to explain the construction and operation of my invention, referring to the drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is the buckle and key in position, with hame-tug, trace, backhand, and bellyband. Fig. 2 is the buckle formed in one metallic piece, of substantially the same form as shown in the drawing. Fig. 3 is the metallic key, with an upright spring in the center, of substantially the same form as shown in the drawing.

A is the hame-tug, extending from the hame to the buckle, with a loop, L, to receive the end of the trace B. O is the backhand, and D is a strap to be buckled into the belly-band. E is a metallic base-plate, with two pins, F F,

near the center, which pass through any two of a series of holes in the hame-tug A which lie nearest the plate E, thus moving the backband C and the strap D either toward or from the hames, to fit the animal upon which they are to be used. The pins also pass through any two of the holes in the traceB after passin g the'trace under the breeching-loop G, then over the hame-tug into the loop L. I I are metallic side plates, one on each side of the plate E, which form the sides of the buckleframe, and are provided with loops J J, through which the key H may pass from either side of the buckle, resting between the pins F F, for which it forms a brace, and holds the hame-tug A and trace B on the pins in the buckle. K is the spring, fastened at the lower end of the key H to hold the key in place. N N is a loop on each side of the buckle at the lower edge of the plates I I, one to receive the belly-band strap D, the other to receive the backhand (J.

I make no claim to the mode in which the backhand and belly-band are secured to the buckle, nor to the breeching-loop G, for I am aware these are not new.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the plate E provided with two pins, F F, the side plates 1 I pro-.

vided with loops J J, and the key H provided with the spring K, and transversely applied to the plates I I, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

ALLEN LUGIAN MGQUARY. Witnesses:

H. O. EAGON, H. B. BROWN. 

